Fifth Annual Hagood Mill Storytelling Festival

The Pickens County Museum of Art & History invites you to a special, and free, day of milling, stories, tall tales and lots of memories at the Hagood Mill Historic Site & Folklife Center. The Mill will be operating, rain or shine, on Saturday, October 21 from 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. This 1845 gristmill, with its' 20 ft. overshot wooden waterwheel, is one of the oldest mills still producing grain products in S.C.

As part of the Pickens County Museum's ''Music in the Mountains'' series, the celebration of our traditions will continue at Hagood Mill on Saturday, October 21 for the ''Fifth Annual Hagood Mill Storytelling Festival.'' The hills will echo around the ole mill with the howls ‘n' hollers of some of the Carolinas' best storytellers with tales of and legends about all sorts of boogers, haints and mountain funnies. Returning to again host what has become one of Hagood Mill's favorite annual events is storyteller, musician and radio personality, John Thomas Fowler.

Join in the fun from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. for this FREE day of tall tales, whoppers and good ol' stories along with the monthly dose of milling, music and memories. The Hagood Mill hosts a variety of folklife and traditional arts demonstrations each month, including blacksmithing, bowl-digging, flintknapping, moonshining, quilting, spinning, weaving, woodcarving, open-hearth cooking and more!

For additional information please contact the Hagood Mill Historic Site & Folklife Center at (864) 898-2936 or the Pickens County Museum at (864) 898-5963 or by e-mail at picmus@co.pickens.sc.us